Charlie Parker Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Play #Saxophone

“You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Faith #Practice

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Art #Men

“Don't be afraid, just play the music.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Play

“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Play #Bullshit

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Art #Reality #Horny

“Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Play #Born

“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Play #Lines #Progression

“When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Beautiful #People #Firsts

“You've got to learn your instrument.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Jazz #Instruments

“I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Thinking #Play

“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Liars #Years #Play

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music Is

“Man, there's no boundary line to art!”
-- Charlie Parker

#Art #Men #Lines

“I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #I Like You #Mets

“I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Swings #Use #Care

“I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Play #Bored #Alive

“Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'”
-- Charlie Parker

#Guy #Comedian #Bops

“Bop is no love-child of jazz.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Children #Bops #Jazz

“Learn the changes, then forget them.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Forget

“I can play all I know in eight bars.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Eight #Play

“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
-- Charlie Parker

#Music #Art #Men